Wassily Kandinsky -- Inner Alliance (1929) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child and Anna Poletti’s Hello, World? are very different books. Scodellaro won the 2024 Novel Prize; her book stitches together a history of Black feminist poetry, theory and prose. Poletti’s novel is a work of queer erotic introspection, investigating the limits of domination and submission. There’s not much to connect them in terms of style, theme or ambition. If there is a common anchor